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		<title>Allina&#8217;s United Hospital plans $18.5M surgery center expansion</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/11/23/allinas-united-hospital-plans-18-5m-surgery-center-expansion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Nov. 22, 2011] Allina&#8217;s United Hospital in St. Paul is planning to spend $18.5 million to renovate operating rooms and expand the overall size of its surgery center. With the project, the total number of ORs in service at United will decrease slightly from 20 to 18. But each operating room will get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allina taps Mercy&#8217;s O&#8217;Connor for top job at United Hospital</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/11/23/allina-taps-mercys-oconnor-for-top-job-at-united-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Nov. 17, 2011] The current president of Allina&#8217;s Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids has been named the new president of United Hospital in St. Paul, also an Allina Hospital. Tom O&#8217;Connor is scheduled to take the job at United Hospital effective Jan. 2. Located in the West Seventh neighborhood of St. Paul, United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers tie lower health plan premiums to tobacco screening</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/08/19/employers-tie-lower-health-plan-premiums-to-tobacco-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, August 18, 2011] Chris Evans wants to qualify for a health plan with a lower deductible next year. So the St. Paul man spent five minutes this week with a toothbrush-shaped swab tucked between his cheek and gums as part of a tobacco-use screening test at United Hospital. This year, Allina joins a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year after a paralyzing accident, a West St. Paul man tackles a grueling mountain ride</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/08/11/a-year-after-a-paralyzing-accident-a-west-st-paul-man-tackles-a-grueling-mountain-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, August 11, 2011]  A year ago, Joe Stone&#8217;s life as he knew it came crashing down on a Montana mountain. The impact left him with seven broken vertebrae, spinal cord damage and paralysis from the chest down. He said the severity of the accident didn&#8217;t hit him until therapy at the Sister Kenny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After stem cell hype, a new hope for heart therapy in Minneapolis</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/08/07/after-stem-cell-hype-a-new-hope-for-heart-therapy-in-minneapolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Aug. 7, 2011] For many years, Bill Garten lived what he calls &#8220;the casino life.&#8221; In the end, Garten lost his unhealthy wager, suffering two major heart attacks and related health problems that left him with few options for his angina chest pain. But now, he&#8217;s starting to feel like a winner, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: After cardiac arrest, &#8216;Cool It&#8217; with therapeutic hypothermia</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/07/12/study-after-cardiac-arrest-cool-it-with-therapeutic-hypothermia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, July 12, 2011] A new study shows that a Twin Cities medical program dubbed &#8220;Cool It&#8221; helped cardiac arrest patients have better outcomes by quickly putting them on ice. The findings, which were published Monday in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, should provide a model for how other communities can use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott Northwestern Hospital offers smokers a lifesaving deal: discounted CT scans</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/06/30/abbott-northwestern-hospital-offers-smokers-a-lifesaving-deal-discounted-ct-scans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, June 30, 2011] Abbott Northwestern Hospital wants smokers to kick the habit while encouraging a new one: annual CT scans. The Minneapolis hospital said Wednesday that it is offering low-dose CT lung screening to current or former smokers ages 50 to 74 who have a significant history of smoking. The announcement was timed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fireplace. Cable TV. Private rooms. ERs in the Twin Cities aren&#8217;t what they used to be.</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/04/20/a-fireplace-cable-tv-private-rooms-ers-in-the-twin-cities-arent-what-they-used-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, April 20, 2011] As a new generation of emergency rooms opens across the east metro, patients are finding amenities that might remind them more of hotels than hospitals. At United Hospital, there&#8217;s a fireplace in the lobby, art on the walls and a commitment to publish waiting times on a website — sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make defibrillator batteries last longer, Minneapolis study urges firms</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/04/06/make-defibrillator-batteries-last-longer-minneapolis-study-urges-firms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, April 6, 2011] Patients are living longer than ever with implantable defibrillators, so the Minnesota companies that make the devices should develop longer-lasting batteries. Those conclusions come from a study presented this week at a scientific meeting in New Orleans by Dr. Robert Hauser and colleagues at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land of 10,000 broken hearts?</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/02/14/land-of-10000-broken-hearts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Feb. 14, 2011] There are a lot of broken hearts in Minnesota. And doctors say the intriguing health problem usually doesn&#8217;t stem from a failed romance. &#8220;It can be from grief — from the death of a loved one. Or it can be from a tornado, a barn burning down or public speaking,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New study suggests costly heart devices are too often implanted</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2011/01/05/new-study-suggests-costly-heart-devices-are-too-often-implanted/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2011/01/05/new-study-suggests-costly-heart-devices-are-too-often-implanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Jan. 4, 2011] Implanted devices that shock failing hearts back into rhythm have saved tens of thousands of lives, doctors say, while also supporting a vibrant cluster of large medical-device companies in the Twin Cities. But a new study reports that about 20 percent of more than 110,000 patients who received these costly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new beat</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/12/20/a-new-beat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Dec. 19,2010] When Bob Sherman puts two fingers to his wrist, the pulse he feels isn&#8217;t normal. Rather than sensing the singular beat he&#8217;s known for most of his life, Sherman now detects a longer surge of blood that occasionally feels like a double beat. He&#8217;s one of a growing number heart failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paul&#8217;s United Hospital receives $10M donation</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/12/14/st-pauls-united-hospital-receives-10m-donation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Dec. 14, 2010] A Minneapolis-based foundation is donating $10 million to expand neuroscience programs at United Hospital in St. Paul. The United Hospital Foundation said Monday that it initially will receive $3 million from the Bentson Foundation to endow a chair position for a doctor at the Nasseff Neuroscience Center. Over the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kidney chain&#8217; donors, recipients meet</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/11/24/kidney-chain-donors-recipients-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/11/24/kidney-chain-donors-recipients-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 24, 2010] Bring together five kidney donors and their organ recipients for the first time, and you can expect to hear plenty of people giving thanks. But the banter can be pretty good, too. As Matthew Kleve, 36, of South St. Paul talked Tuesday about how much more energy he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent St. Paul Heart Clinic closes Jan. 1</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/11/18/independent-st-paul-heart-clinic-closes-jan-1/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/11/18/independent-st-paul-heart-clinic-closes-jan-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer  Press, Nov. 18, 2010] St. Paul Heart Clinic, one of the most prominent physician groups in the east metro, is dissolving by Jan. 1. Based in a building adjacent to United Hospital in downtown St. Paul, the heart clinic said its 31 doctors will become employees either of the Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals &#38; Clinics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research: Increased hearing loss in children numbers might be inflated</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/09/21/research-increased-hearing-loss-in-children-numbers-might-be-inflated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Sept. 21, 2010] In August, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that one in every five teens has slight hearing loss. But on Monday, University of Minnesota researchers said those findings did not consider that conventional hearing tests often falsely identify children as having noise-induced hearing loss. Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An altruistic donor in Minneapolis triggers a series of five transplants in two states</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/07/23/an-altruistic-donor-in-minneapolis-triggers-a-series-of-five-transplants-in-two-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, July 23, 2010] Hospitals in the Twin Cities and Fargo, N.D., reported Thursday an unusual series of five kidney transplant surgeries that shows just how far doctors are going to stretch the limited supply of organ donors. The so-called &#8220;kidney chain&#8221; got started this month with an altruistic donor in Minneapolis who donated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurses&#8217; contract fight spills onto Web</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/04/30/nurses-contract-fight-spills-onto-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 30, 2010] &#8220;The great thing (with social media) is that we have a measurable way to gauge public opinion, support and feedback on negotiations,&#8221; said John Nemo, an MNA spokesman. &#8220;And we can also share that input with our members instantaneously.&#8221; Representing the majority of metro hospitals, the Allina, Children&#8217;s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take two needles and call me in the morning</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/04/14/take-two-needles-and-call-me-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 14, 2010] Five patients — with three new knees and two new hips among them — were rolled into a dimmed, windowless room at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis for group acupuncture. None had received the treatment before, but Cynthia Miller, a clinical acupuncturist, quickly had thin needles protruding from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medtronic pacemaker works with MRIs</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/03/31/medtronic-pacemaker-works-with-mris/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/03/31/medtronic-pacemaker-works-with-mris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allinanews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, March 30, 2010] Heart doctors are cheering news that Fridley-based Medtronic is moving closer to marketing the first MRI-compatible pacemaker in the U.S. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s an advantage for Medtronic,&#8221; said Dr. Robert Hauser, a cardiologist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. &#8220;(But) there are multiple factors that physicians must weigh in selecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close call has OSHA putting renewed emphasis on grain bin safety</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/02/09/close-call-has-osha-putting-renewed-emphasis-on-grain-bin-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/02/09/close-call-has-osha-putting-renewed-emphasis-on-grain-bin-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Feb. 9, 2010] Four days after spending more than eight hours trapped up to his chest inside a Farmington grain silo, Mark Malecha returned to work Monday. Authorities are investigating reports he was not wearing a safety harness when, while attempting to unclog clumped or frozen grain, he fell into the bin Thursday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency treatment center to compete with Woodwinds hospital in Woodbury</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/02/03/emergency-treatment-center-to-compete-with-woodwinds-hospital-in-woodbury/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/02/03/emergency-treatment-center-to-compete-with-woodwinds-hospital-in-woodbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Feb. 3, 2010] A group of Twin Cities emergency physicians plans to open a standalone emergency treatment center in Woodbury—hoping to provide faster, cheaper care than the Woodwinds hospital ER a mile away. The group practice has been planning a standalone treatment center for three years, but targeted the east metro suburb after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail heath</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/01/24/retail-heath/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/01/24/retail-heath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Jan. 24, 2010] There&#8217;s a chill in the air for the once-hot retail health clinic industry as growth has stalled following a boom. As the retail clinic business has matured over the past two years, operators that once threatened to undermine the delivery of health care in the U.S. increasingly are finding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No fatal falls in Minnesota hospitals in 2009</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2010/01/14/no-fatal-falls-in-minnesota-hospitals-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2010/01/14/no-fatal-falls-in-minnesota-hospitals-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Jan. 14, 2010] No patients in Minnesota hospitals died from falls last year — a first for the state since it started publicly reporting preventable hospital errors six years ago. Health officials said the decrease — down from 10 fall-related deaths in the previous reporting period — was a remarkable achievement that required the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merging municipal service can save money, increase quality</title>
		<link>http://allinanews.com/2009/12/06/merging-municipal-service-can-save-money-increase-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://allinanews.com/2009/12/06/merging-municipal-service-can-save-money-increase-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Pioneer Press, Dec. 06, 2009] Most city officials instinctively want to control their own services and preserve their identities—showing off the city name on water towers, police cars, snowplows and uniforms. Yet pride comes at a price. The state auditor&#8217;s office recently released figures that show that some cities are paying 10 times as much [...]]]></description>
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